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<p>This Government is leading the way in promoting animal welfare by bringing forward
legislation that will increase the maximum custodial penalty for animal cruelty in
England from 6 months’ to 5 years’ imprisonment. We have also made it a requirement
for all slaughterhouses to have CCTV; updated and improved the laws regulating dog
breeding and pet sales; and banned the third party sale of puppies and kittens.</p><p>
</p>

<p>The Government considers the distributional impact of its interventions on different
groups, including low income households, and our National Adaptation Programme sets
out the steps the Government will be taking, until the next five year plan in 2023,
to further adapt to climate change. Its central aim is to build resilience across
the economy, and draws from across a large body of cross-Government work. To take
just one example, the Government’s capital investment programme in flooding and coastal
erosion is expected to provide over a ten-fold economic return on the initial outlay.</p>

<p>This Government is leading the way in promoting animal welfare by bringing forward
legislation that will increase the maximum custodial penalty for animal cruelty in
England from 6 months’ to 5 years’ imprisonment. We have also made it a requirement
for all slaughterhouses to have CCTV; updated and improved the laws regulating dog
breeding and pet sales; and banned the third party sale of puppies and kittens.</p><p>
</p>

<p>There has never been any question that this Government’s policies on animal welfare
are driven by the fact that animals are sentient beings. However, the Government has
been very clear that we will make any necessary changes required to UK law in a rigorous
and comprehensive way to ensure animal sentience is recognised after we leave the
EU.</p>

<p>Our Resources and Waste Strategy sets out actions we are taking, including a ban
on the sale and/or supply of plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds by April 2020.
We are leading global efforts through the Commonwealth Clean Ocean Alliance, which
we support with a package worth up to £70m. We also work with the International Maritime
Organisation to tackle litter from ships and are helping shape a new international
action plan on shipping litter.</p>

To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House
of Commons Commission, how frequently the Commission receives reports from the Speaker’s
Advisory Committee on Works of Art.

<p>The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art produces an annual report which
is published and considered by the House’s Finance Committee. The Commission does
not receive routine updates. The last annual report was published on the Committee’s
website in October 2018. This year’s annual report is due to be considered by the
Advisory Committee in September and will be published later in the year.</p>

<p>Strengthening and Sustaining the Union is a key priority for the UK Government.
This is why we have asked Lord Dunlop to carry out a review to ensure that we are
working in the most effective way possible to realise fully all the benefits of being
a United Kingdom.</p>

<p>I have regular discussions with my Rt honourable Friend the Secretary of State
for Work and Pensions on a range of issues.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the Pension Credit
GB caseload stands at around 1.6 million, the number of Pension Credit claims in Scotland
stands at around 150,000 - an almost 10% reduction in the number of claims since May
2017.</p>

<p>Strengthening and Sustaining the Union is a key priority for the UK Government.
This is why we have asked Lord Dunlop to carry out a review to ensure that we are
working in the most effective way possible to realise fully all the benefits of being
a United Kingdom.</p>

<p>The Home Office ensures that asylum seekers, who would otherwise be destitute,
are provided with accommodation and a weekly cash allowance.</p><p>This includes free,
furnished accommodation, and we also cover utility costs and provide individuals with
a cash allowance to cover other essential living needs. The level of the allowance
is reviewed each year.</p>